Top sites searched on Opera Mini

OSLO, NORWAY: Search, social network and video web sites top the last Mobile Web report for 2011, released by Opera Software, a web browser company.

The report relates to the most popular websites people are surfing from the Opera mobile web browser also know as Opera Mini.

According to the report, 2011 was the year of user-created content for Opera Mini users. Already very popular in the top 10 charts before 2011, websites like Wikipedia and Blogger saw an increase in their number of unique visitors and crept even higher on the charts. With more than 144 million Opera Mini users each month worldwide, the top-ten lists are somewhat static, but even a small change in list rankings can signify a huge shift in usage patterns.

Some sites that moved down or out of the list include app stores and older social sites like Orkut.

The world’s most popular websites on Opera Mini 2011 are:

1. google.com

2. facebook.com

3. youtube.com (up 1)

4. vkontakte.ru (down 1)

5. odnoklassniki.ru

6. yandex.ru

7. wikipedia.org (up 4)

8. my.opera.com

9. yahoo.com (down 2)

10. twitter.com (up 2)

(Data is from number of unique users in November 2010 through November 2011. Change from November 2010 is in parenthesis)

Read the full list at http://www.opera.com/smw/